This year we honor Gerald Potterton with a Retrospective of his work curated by Chris Seguin. Gerald's career has spanned half a century from Directing films like Heavy Metal, to years at the NFB to his own production company. It's an epic screening for an epic career. Gerald will be zoom'd in from Montreal where he will share stories and witty anecdotes about his epic career.
PART #1: EARLY DAYS AT THE NFB - 20:00 TOTAL
- Fish Spoilage Control - 08:00
- It’s a Crime - 12:00
PART #2: NFB ALL-STARS AND OSCAR NOMINATIONS - 22:30 TOTAL
- Hors-d’oeuvre - 07:30
- Christmas Cracker - 09:15
- My Financial Career - 06:45
PART #3: WORKING WITH BUSTER KEATON - 08:00 TOTAL
- Buster Keaton Footage - 8:00
PART #4: POTTERTON PRODUCTIONS - 26:00 TOTAL
- Pinter People - 16:00
- Clips from Tiki Tiki - 10:00
Directors
Gerald Potterton
Canada - Potterton Productions
Currently well into the 8th decade of his career as an animator/illustrator/filmmaker, Gerald Potterton is a three-time Academy Award nominee and a key figure in the history of the National Film Board of Canada. Beyond his work for the NFB he established his own studio, Potterton Productions, and has worked with such legends as Richard Williams, Jim Henson, Norman Maclaren and Kai Pindal. He served as an animator on Halas & Batchelor’s “Animal Farm” (1954) and The Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine”, and directed the cult favourite, “Heavy Metal”.
Gerald’s live-action short for the NFB, “The Railrodder” starring legendary silent film comic Buster Keaton, has reached iconic status — having been honoured with a postage stamp by Canada Post, and shared on DVD in a welcome package to Syrian newcomers.
His latest work is the book “L’homme des Neiges: Histoire de Joseph-Armand Bombardier”, an illustrated biography for children of the inventor of the snowmobile, published in 2020.
